Looks like my first folding casualty. Was fiddling around with 3820 overclock and the rig became unresponsive & I could not get into bios. I tried to clear cmos and now get the one long four short beep code, hardware failure. The boot device led on the mobo is now on, I tried mem ok and booting with one stick of/no ram, no video card but to no avail. I suspect the psu (in details) went but I have no replacement on hand damnit. Was going to get a new psu soon but now I am stuck out in the boonies with a dead rig. There goes 60k ppd...

Confirmed bad psu. Damn near as hard to troubleshoot as bad ram. Gonna do a complete new OS install on SSD, should be folding in a few days again.

The 'clear cmos' button on the back is broken , and in true asus fashion it's not just a 2 wire switch.....it's a dpdt 6 wire , and the board wont even power up without some sort of ******* connection through that switch.

There's nothing left of the switch to test out either , it's in 8 pieces.

just found this thread, only ever had one folding casualty, Was SMP folding on my old ASUS commando/q9400 rig and it black screened and froze, turned out to be dead PSU(apevia 550),and took my RAM out to(2X2GB g.skill pi series 1066)